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It'wM not until 40 p.m.
OUcier, most powerful icebreaker in tha 1m world, was
bl to awash her way to the side of !be little maroon ahip.
In the tradition of the w a. f.ngK wen dird.
Lining the rail of the Danish ship were the 61 scientists
and members of the crew, relief showing in their factta. Sir
Vivian Fuchs, who won fame in this bleak and chilling land,
was on the bridge with the Kista Dan'i captain, Kag HineV
brg. .
Far In the distance, nearly
the rayi of the setting sun on
Alexander I Island.
Immediately the Glacier began sn almost round-the-clock
battle of freeing the beset ship, .lanes Ship list the USS
Glacier ae the world'a most powerful tug with the power ol
10 conventional sea -gome tugboats.
Thie talent of the icebreaker could not, however, be put
to aood u.se. Her tavline was
Kills Dan'a hull construction. Twice the smaller cable of
the Danish ship snapped in two when attempts were mede
te tow the vessel through the ice.
The alternative was to clear the channel through which
the smaller ship might follow under power, utilizing the
awlrline hack-wash from the Glacier'e churning propeller to
help move great blocks of ice.
the Americen ship, designed to
10 deareaa. wae in constant use
This tent 140,000 gallons of
from side to iide when the vessel fcung ob top or the ice peek.
When darkness fell, Sir)
Vivian Fuchs, Captain Hin4.i
nerg ana in scienusis im
crew of the Kista Dan paid us
a friendly visit, and enjoyed
a moving picture show at the
two ships moored in the ice.
I met Sir Vivian in the cap
tain's cabin on board the Gla
cier that night. He voiced
warm p r a 1 1 e for Medford
made Tucker Sno-Cats and I
knew he meant it, having
read his dramatic account of
the crossing of the Antarctic
continent in the National Geo
graphic magazine kid in his
book.
The British explorer told us
how the Danish ship had not
moved for 13 days when a sud
den northwesterly wind closed
the ice pack like springing a
trap. The stern of their vessel
was raited five feet above the
water line and the Kista Dan
listed over 10 degrees because
of the ice pressure. It was a
severe test for her heavy all
ateel, egg-shape hull.
Wina Ease Sri? .
A change in the wind final
ly eased the grip of the ice,
and the ship assumed an even
keel.
"We began to feel that one
leg was little longer than
the other," Fuchs told us with
a smile. "We felt that a bit
of help wouldn't do us any
harm," he added.
Leter in the evening the
Glacisr'e captain was back at
the ehip's conn-controls, driv
ing the icebreaker back and
forth along the most difficult
few hundred feet of the chap
nel through which the Danish
ship would be led the next
day.
Below deck, hour after
hour, the noise of the laboring
engines was deafening; vibra
tion shook the entire ship as
the icebreaker hurled herself
Into hard ice like a great bat
tering ram.
Change to Goad
At daybreak the men of
both ehipe nervously eyed the
wind, whkb could tighten the
Ice is a giant vise anal beset
them foe the long dark Ant
eretie winter juel ahead. For
tune!!?, however, .i change
wsa for the goo. Tt win
ablfteg around ae swept tf?
tee rainier reiwneu'a froat tna
east n goutfe. It tta'.pa4 to
speed the rescue. (
Uaing Iter orange helicrtp
tort te eeaut the wa ana final
(ha leads Ha (J'io bto&g a
trtfil t ahtul88 mils through
ttt in iq Mttina th 8is'j
T)aO te eras waive, 'Such o?i
s tfeaseos wuafflia tonfeiMto
ithfr on ft.
fi9ie ftfarnoon. QHijriui'
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9 flfW trieiajy jsjewens
tvw .o'W by radio. The
(B&m AOArican stfTf turped
fav KiO'-S) on Vj'er xoa
Bgll&r ititt vessel and fielded
irth ftr tf inland passage
thg) PSlmer Ayehipelago,
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Sunday, March t. that th
100 miles away, we could see
the white crevaised elopaa of
too large to use because of the
The unique heeling system of
artmciauy rou me iceorsaaer
to looaen the grip or tna ice.
liquid balart shifting rapidly
many aesie. whalee n4 pen-
guins.
Wa were amused at Sir Vi
vian Fuchs' noncommittal at
titude throughout the opera
tion. The small 1,500 horse
power Danish ship was so
solidly beset in an icepack
that the Glacier's 18,900 avail
able horsepower was hardly
enough force to penetrate it.
When wa arrived at Buenoa
Aires later in the month, we
found that the "Buenos Aires
Herald" had devoted en en
tire page to the Glacier and
the Fuch'a affair. Thai heed
lines read: . .
"Fucks' mastespiace f -exav
.dftTilsiemsBt, 'Siaa tb sg
you if you're tki way'
Double R as cut ky U...
Glacier. TaaT juat vaa'i
admit it aaa reatrua kat
of couaa is Ywsl"
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So, Sir Vivian'a farewell
remark wan: "Thank very
much for your help. It was for
tunate for us that the Sen
Martin asked for help. It will
enable me to accomplish at
least two mare week of our
programme. Goo4 luck."
With the successful pene
tration of the Bellingshausen
sea, plus two assists to beset
ships, the Glacier pointed, her
bow toward her home base at
Boston. It wa to be a leisure
ly trip, marked with a few
goo ''-will visits, bird banairsg,
ilecffonis Brains
Talk Over PUsfies
Canoga Park, Calif - (Sci
ence S e r v i c e - Electronic
"brains" are talking to each
other over telephone line and
microwave redio. They ere
helping to manae th devel
opment of some of America'
big rocket engines.
Rocketdyne Division of
North American Aviation,
Inc., has link its engineer
ing labs and test stand in Cal
ifornia, Teiaeanj at iestmrl by
leasts' win to two big
"bi'ains" at fiaaSquarter hare.
The th "bri9f' Witt by xe
io wub Worth . Arrariean
tVviation, lac., "brains" in Los
Aria:,
Thxa coBiputwrs tatfc about
miitale bgiag developed.
Stay cSat bout, whether (.
grogrttsi itfon f lioSuteor not,
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ply, how tha profhictioa lirW
prJ)iir flfh'Si.h'
tiiaro.B):t iRithin th bud-
their own. They comse in
this mathematical langi2e at
a rateQ! 7J.000 "words" a
minute. ' 0
By keeping track of all the
details ois-iuildinP missiles
like Ttior and Atlas, the ma
chines are expected to save
$30,000 a month.
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ISLASD HARBOR Glimpse of the harbor
at Deception Island, formed by the crater
of a volcano, with the famous ornithologist.
Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, of the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History, New York.
seal counting, oceanographic
stations and inseet studies.
With a bright polar sun
glistening on glaciers anfl ice
bergs and turning th sea to
a veh'et-blue, the ship slipped
by the Biscoe Islands, rounded
rounded Amver Island anS
skirted Brambant Island into
the de Gerlache Stiit, the
fabulous innejf passage of Ant
arctica. Here is soma of the
world's $nost spectacular and
beautiful scenery!
S arrow Pttcaga
With nippy breei blow
ing, whales frolicked in large
numbers as the ship slowly
taverstd the miles of narrow
passage. Hundreds of crab
eater teals paid little atten
tion to the Glacier and ker
Kodachroma crew as they
basked on chunks ol pancake
ice. For th first iim in
weeks, many species of birds
wer out to greet u-
Perhaps the best know
islend in the far south Atlan
tic, mad famous in sea stor
ies of whalers nd windjam
mers of the 19th Century, is
Deception. This doughnut
shape island, with its large
harbor, is actually a volcano
with the harbor a crater, very
much lik another volcanic
island I visited year ago in
th Samoan group in
th'
South Pacific where legeri'
dary Pago Pago is located.
Deception Island, discover
ed by Cptain 381 S. Palmer in
1820, is similar to southern
Oregon Crater lake i? it had
a narrow passage end was
surrounded by the sea. It 3
similar in size, too, with en
approximate diameter of
miles. Mt. Pont 5 the highest
slope 1,890 feet high with a
glacier having alternate layers
of ash and ice.
Ola Wheiieg Staiiea
The old whaling station, es
tablished more than a half
century ago, was in shambles,
destroyed by a British cruiser
in 191 to forestall its use by
German commerce raiders.
There are three tiny bases
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on the island, opertd by the
United KiniSsai, Argentina
and Chili.
We visitelt the British me-i
teft-ologicai station, near the
ol whaling station ruin
along a beach lined with great
bleaching whaift bones. Seven
mtn are si t Uoned thera in the
summertime, five in winter,
and our welcome was a warm
one.
lam Jackson was station
leader; Roger Matthews, ma-
Stan hmi m
lit Ssmrttfan
Pittsburgh (Science Serv
ice) All th kinds of stars
now known can b found in
each of the two main stellar
groups, Dr. Wilhelmine Iwan-i
owska of Perkine observatory,
Delaware, Ohio, reported toi
th American Astronomical
socity meeting sr.
Th Pofisfi astronomer, who
on leave from the Observa
tory of Copernicus university,
Torun, Poland, said that stars
can be 'assigned to one of two
large groups, known as popu
lation I or II, depending on
their origin in a galaxy. This
division hs been accented bv
astronomer for several years.
Dr. Iwannwska's new sug
gestion i that tha different
kind of tai-4 - red or blue
giant, dwarfs, whit dwarfs,
planetary aebuls. novae or
other kin& of variable stars
should not ba assisned to one
population typ but can oc
cur in both.
This arrangement would al
low for considerable rang of
ages with the possibility of
present star formation in both
population type. Astronomers
hava found stars as young at)
300,000 yars and mora than
three billion years, Tha pres
ent classification of a Star, Dr.
Iwanowska reported, results
from its population type and
age, with Its life history be
ing governed by its mass.
musk, main
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Cape pigeons dot the waters of the land
locked harbor. This picture was taken near
th small British meterological base, visited
by the USS Glacier during Operation Deep
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teorologicai officer and Flight
Lieut. A. H. Lord, Hs?yai Air
Force and pilot of the litU
Beaver airplane on a sr!!
field neerby, and others who
came and went, saw ftat we
were entertame! in. the gal
ley and small corner "gub."
Everything at this uniqu
base is housed in a sirg'a
building, with all activities ra
diating from the small livir-,
and sleeping room with it
small peat stove
Like the crew quarters of
th Argentine icebreaker.
General San Martin, photo
of American movie stars are
popular pin-upsj i found. Over
Roger Matthew bunk 'as a
life-size lithograph of Ava
Gardner. Among tha hwkie
dogs staked outside was old
"Spud," a friendly old veter-
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Washington (Science Serv
ice) - "A marvti in fish ob
stetrics" has been brought to
light in a world-wide census
of shark attacks now being
conducted under the auspices
of the Smithsonian Institution
here.
A pregnant female shark;
containing 11 embryos, each
about 10 inch long, was
found off the Hawaiian
Islands. The total mass of em
bryos amounted to about five
gallons, probably a record for
the fish race, Dr. Leonard P.
Schuliz, Smithsonian curator
of fishes, reported.
The shark belonged to a
species of the bramble sha.'k,
with a body covered with
short, sharp spines. About JO
f wt long, it is not really dan-
gerous and dwells on th
bottom in deep water, gtldom
coming near enough to the
surface to molest humaaa.
As far a It known, th spe
cies is not especially numer
ous despite the apparently
enormous birth rate,'
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be !.tca j
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clouds 9 aseam r.a psi ;
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w:. wa'.er wa a imn4st
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cax. In !! an ets'.huaa
occur !! which lottrg
tit totloffl c th ijarbot lj
It.
In th Giacser'a li'5e Ciajan
ian4 cruiaer, wa beaded ba.-s
to t'r ship by way of the har
bor entrance so that we might
inspect tiie wreck of a whal
ing ship impaled m the rocks.
Although few ships visit this
remoia little land-lockea har
bor, two hapfjened to meet at
th annt tsmSj in the narrow
entrance, a rar quirk of fate.
That was eight years ago and
only one survived. There are
reminders of other sea trage
dies in the tiny censs'Scry near
the British base.
With Ensign Philip Smith,
Glacier gunnery officer, in
command of the little cruiser,
we headed back across the
harbor, drenched with saiiy
spray and riding high on the
wind-tossed waves. Our visit
to Deception island will long
Se a pleasant memory the
hospitable Britishers, the fas
cinating iflstory of the island,
the picturesque setting.
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COiBaTIVE 1Z This picture, taken
by helicopter Majch 8, 1940, in the icepack
off Marguerite bay, Antarctica, shows the
comparative size of the USS Glacier and the
amsSer Easish polar ship, Kista Dan. The
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ship. General San Martin. The rescue of the
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